Pair v. Rook’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably T... v. T... (1976), Spring Construction Co. v. Harris (1980)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hale v. Hale · Plunkett v. Bryant · Spinks v. Rice · Clarkson v. Bliley · Clark v. Atkins
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In considering the circumstances under which evidence may be admitted in support of an oral contract for the devise of lands on the ground of part performance by the party seeking to enforce the alleged contract, this is said on page 733 of 90 Va. “Now the alleged acts of part performance in the present case, taken singularly or collectively, do not bring the case within these principles. The making and preserving the wills under the circumstances stated in the bill, while they are acts consistent with, are yet not demonstrative of, the existence of any contract between the parties; or, in other words, they do not unequivocally show that there was a contract. Non constat, the wills were not made from motives of love and affection and independently of any contract or agreement; and, this being so, parol evidence to establish the alleged contract would not be admissible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kane v. Richardson“`Until acts are alleged which, of themselves, imply the existence of such a contract, parol evidence to show its terms is inadmissible.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he acts relied on as part performance must be consistent with no theory other than the existence of the alleged oral contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.